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Phishing scheme affecting some Hotmail customers

Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 4:51 PM by Microsoft Privacy Team
The Windows Live Team Blog writes : Over the weekend Microsoft learned that several thousand Windows Live Hotmail customers’ credentials were exposed on a third-party site due to a likely phishing scheme. Upon learning of the issue, we immediately requested Read More...
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IE 8 SmartScreen Protects Against Identity-Stealing Malware

Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 1:04 AM by Microsoft Privacy Team
From the IE8 team : Over the last year, we’ve published two posts about how the IE8 SmartScreen ® filter helps to prevent phishing and malware attacks. In this post, I’d like to share some real-world data on the protection provided to IE8 pre-release Read More...
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Kim Cameron on Information Cards as a solution to site redirection

Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 7:25 PM by Microsoft Privacy Team
Kim Cameron, Chief Architect of Identity in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft has an interesting post up about at his Laws of Identity blog on the vulnerability of passwords to "site redirection ", a problem that Information Cards don't have: Read More...
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Title: Online Identity Theft: Changing the Game

Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:26 PM by Microsoft Privacy Team
As many of you know, Microsoft has been at the forefront in fighting the scourge of identity theft. We've improved our products and created tools to help fight identity theft -- the Internet Explorer Phishing Filter ; Windows Defender ; Windows Live OneCare Read More...
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Identity Crisis? What Crisis?

Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:44 PM by Microsoft Privacy Team
Jerry Fishenden, National Technology Officer for the UK, here ... If you think the current problems of online safety and Internet e-crime (or cybercrime if you prefer) appear challenging, what on earth is going to happen when the Internet pervades every Read More...
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